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Faculty and alumni honored in the 97th Academy Awards

  Update: Nominees for the 97th Academy Awards, including “I Am Ready, Warden,” were announced on January 23. Congratulations to our Academy Award shortlisted filmmakers! Alexis Bloom (’01) directed “The Bibi Files“, shortlisted for best Documentary Feature Film. Professor Jason Spingarn-Koff (’01) was executive producer of LA Times Short Docs’  “A Swim Lesson” and “Planetwalker,”…

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FRONTLINE collaboration investigates the multi-billion dollar business of college sports

J-School Professor Lowell Bergman reported “Money and March Madness,” an inside look at the multi-billion dollar business of college sports. It airs on FRONTLINE.

Q&A with Peter Bittner (’17) on the potential and perils of AI

Since graduating from UC Berkeley Journalism in 2017, Peter Bittner has freelanced for major news outlets — from the The New York Times to  CNN to Al Jazeera — received a Fulbright in Mongolia to write a series of public health stories and been a communications consultant for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Bittner taught UC…

A house with a laundry line full of clothes hanging in front. The text "A House Is Not A Home" is written across the lower portion of the image, reminiscent of a J-School Student Book setup. A person sits on the stairs leading up to the entrance. The setting appears warm and lived-in.

‘A House Is Not A Home’ J-School Student Book Published

The Fall Documentary Photo class created a self-published Blurb Book ‘A House is Not A Home’ and is highlighted on Blurb web site as an example of great inspiration.

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Fits, Starts & Matters of the Heart: 28 True Stories of Love, Loss & Everything In Between

A new anthology containing 28 love stories of love, loss, and everything in between. It includes an essay by Amy Mayer (MJ ’98) and comes from Freelance Success.

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Diana Jou (’11) Writes Piece for AP

Diana Jou reports on a Taiwanese man’s painstaking efforts to preserve moveable type.

Jennifer Bjorhus, a 1993 graduate of the journalism school and longtime newspaper reporter, dies

A message from Emily Gurnon (’93), a longtime friend and classmate of Jennifer’s: Jennifer Bjorhus, a 1993 graduate of the journalism school and longtime newspaper reporter,  died Aug. 9 after a nine-month battle with glioblastoma. She was 59. After earning her MJ, with a joint master’s in Asian Studies, she worked for eight years on…

China Reporting

Reporting on China Unique among American journalism programs, Berkeley Journalism’s China Reporting Project gives our journalism students a head start on covering China’s culture, history and politics. Launched in 2022, the project is part of the school’s renewed focus on international reporting. The need couldn’t be more urgent: Recent hostility and harsh rhetoric between the…

J-School Students Honored in AEJMC Contest

Several Berkeley journalism students were honored in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Best of the Web contest this year.

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Alums Maggie Beidelman and Jackeline Luna win CCNow Award for series on fossil fuels

  Videographers Maggie Beidelman (’13) and Jackeline Luna (’18) of Los Angeles Times have won the award for the best multimedia journalism covering the climate crisis in the 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards. The winners were selected from more than 1,250 entries, representing outlets around the world. From the announcement: California’s sunny Imperial Valley would seem…